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Quicken 2017 and TurboTax 2016 win10 ver 15007 registry changes.
Being on the fast ring for Windows 10 updates, I was frustrated that Quicken 2017 and TurboTax 2016 would not work due to a net.framework.4.6.1 error preventing them from running or installing on version 15002. Windows had updated the net. framework to 4.7 and Quicken and Turbo Tax would not recognize it. With the newest 15007 version AND these instructions from the Microsoft web site:
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15007 for PC and Mobile - Windows Experience BlogWindows Experience Blog...
I got them to work. NOTE: you HAVE to change permissions for FULL and CLIENT before you can modify the two version settings by doing this:
1. Using the registry editor go to the Client folder, right click and select permissions. Click on the advanced button. At the top, click on the OWNER change link. In the BOX, put in your user name that is all in caps under the users selection from the previous little window.
2. Once changed, click on the Users (YOURNAME/Users) principal in the box below. Click on Edit. Click on full control box to check it and click on OK and then click on APPLY. It should go through without errors.
3. Do the same thing for the FULL folder.
4. Now you can do the two changes that Microsoft has written up in the problem part of the web page above. Right click on version and click on modify. Change the number from 7 to 6 in the value box and click OK.
5. Microsoft quote:
Quicken will fail to run with an error stating .NET 4.6.1 is not installed. For Insiders familiar with Registry Editor, there is an optional workaround. Take ownership of the following registry keys and edit the “version” value to be 4.6.XXXXX instead of 4.7.XXXXX:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\Client
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\Full
Note: Please take caution when editing the registry. Changing the wrong value can have unexpected and undesirable results.
END Microsoft quote.
I am pretty sure that these settings get changed back when the next version of windows 10 comes out in the fast ring so you may have to redo this every time Windows updates or until Quicken and Intuit's TurboTax programmers fix the problem of not recognizing a net version above 4.6.
This let me be able to reload Quicken 2017 and Turbo Tax 2016 and run them. Yea! Otherwise I would have had to run them from my bedroom HTPC. Good luck.
EDIT: With build 15014, all the changed registry settings were put back to their original configurations, including permissions. The entire process needs to be repeated with every new build.
Last edited by John Pombrio; 23 Jan 2017 at 13:13.